Hi there @SimpleBloggerThank you for your speedy reply.Are you able to kindly suggest where I can change this setting?In the Blogger Template Designer I go to the Advanced, Background tabs and this does not amend the top white band?

You also need to set height to 0, so putting this in the beginning of template worked for me : #navbar { visibility:hidden display: none !important; height: 0px;}#navbar-iframe { visibility:hidden display: none !important; height: 0px;}

About my previous comment, note that it also works without setting height to 1px, but then there is a transparent stripe which even thought does not drastically impact the design of the page, but occupies extra space of 30px. To remove it I set height to 1px. Setting height to 0px did not have any effect, the white stripe was still there.

@Simple Blogger TipsChanging background color will not for me since I have a picture background, check it on my blog.This blog has a color background, so you don't really need the solution I have proposed, you can just leave the strip there and set it to the color same as this blog's background color, and it will be flawless.

ok so this may sound really dumb but I have to ask. First, I got rid of the menu bar on top no problem - yippie! thank you...but now how do I get into my blog to edit it? do I have to sign in again and everytime to edit? ALso the bar from the top is removed on my end but is it also removed from a viewers side too? Thanks!

oh nevermind,I got it! Btw does removing the menu in the template remove it when someone is viewing the blog? In other words, when some one views my blog will there be no Blogger menu option on top? If that's the case then nice! The simplier of a look the better for me. Please let me know thanks! :)

Very first version worked for me, and didn't have the white strip. But there was a gap in its place. Any ideas on how to make the gap go away??The suggestion of putting [[> before the code used didn't work (wrong placing). Look at my site at www.32656.info Maybe it is in the various new templates that we have, similar but slightly different problems. Also need some info on how to get old java script to work in new templates.

Some templates don't eliminate the whitespace reserved for the Navbar. Checkout this article which tells you how to get ride of the whitespace.http://brian-kayser.blogspot.com/2010/10/purge-email-script-for-exchange.html

it is just recently that i knew that it's possible to remove this navbar, my blogs were just bad and so, for long time. In my opinion it's always a better option to remove the blogger navbar because when it's not done, the blog just looks like a novice blog. Thanks so much for the trick!